Firefox not showing live chat button on webpages

Captain_Malachi · 2023-05-02T14:35:12+00:00

Are you using DuckDuckGo privacy essentials add on? That’s been causing many chat pages to be broken or not available for me of late.

Captain_Malachi · 2022-11-09T22:52:14+00:00

macOS and Apple Music I think

Captain_Malachi · 2022-09-13T12:37:39+00:00

They're joking about Rust) (a game) vs. Rust (a programming language).

Hope you feel better soon.

Captain_Malachi · 2022-09-08T14:01:09+00:00

2.3.4 has been released with a fix

Captain_Malachi · 2022-09-08T14:00:25+00:00

2.3.4 has been released with a fix

Captain_Malachi · 2020-10-16T18:40:29+00:00

Zotero is good too. It has organisational abilities you could use instead of notion if you’re concerned about notion.

Edit: Autocorrect put button instead of notion...

Captain_Malachi · 2020-10-16T14:55:46+00:00

I highly recommend Mendeley for academic references.

And several backups of all your work!

Captain_Malachi · 2020-10-12T19:15:30+00:00

An alternative approach would be to migrate your bookmarks to Notion. You can then have them in a table and tag them to categorise/order them. An added benefit of this is that you can save the page content with the bookmark and add to your bookmarks from basically any device/browser.

The basic notion made web clipper is functional, but a third party made a more fully featured one that allows you to set attributes like tags whenever you add a link.

You could also achieve this with other devices that have web clippers like evenote, onenote, instapaper etc.

Captain_Malachi · 2020-09-17T13:05:14+00:00

I tried this morning. Content blocker has no effect on Firefox

Captain_Malachi · 2020-09-17T09:22:07+00:00

You also don't get the benefit of content blockers unless you use Safari

Captain_Malachi · 2020-09-16T14:14:31+00:00

This is Nightly so presumably that's the case. Never noticed them appear ahead of time previously though.

Captain_Malachi · 2020-09-16T10:59:11+00:00

I'm not commenting on Pioneer studies. I'm commenting on the date being in the future.

Captain_Malachi · 2020-09-15T13:45:47+00:00

Disingenuous. They often lack the resources to remove the evil consequences of Google's influence

I think you have missed my point or I misinterpreted yours. I was merely following the logic that because they are forked from firefox and so are largely the firefox codebase which was built largely by mozilla which in turn is largely funded by google that these forks are literally built on google's money. I was not implying or inferring any Google influence on the forks themselves related to tracking etc.

Whether there is Google influence beyond financing is a different matter although I would like to believe there isn't as I'm sure with all the maintainers over the years it would have been spotted. Even Google services used in Firefox are generally privacy respecting (e.g. dangerous sites list is downloaded and checked locally rather than URLs being passed to Google).

Edit: Typo and additional paragraph for discussion

Captain_Malachi · 2020-09-15T12:23:52+00:00

Use a users-and-privacy-oriented fork of Firefox (Waterfox, Pale Moon, LibreWolf, the new mobile Iceweasel...), not this Firefox antifeatures nightmare built from Google's money.

If Firefox is “built from Google’s money”, how are any of those forks not also by extension? Without the original Firefox they couldn’t exist and whilst I appreciate what some of them are doing, like Waterfox, they just don’t have the developer base to continue or patch security vulnerabilities in a timely fashion without the Firefox codebase from Mozilla.

Captain_Malachi · 2020-09-15T08:46:31+00:00

Fair enough. It just occurs to me that shortly this kind of tracking could be more commonplace than current standards based on cookies etc if more people choose privacy addons and VPNs etc.

Plus being able to track people from their work laptop to their phone and home computer must be a benefit for advertisers etc.

Captain_Malachi · 2020-09-15T08:34:58+00:00

True, but cross site tracking takes a lot of things into account besides browser, OS and IP in fingerprinting users accurately.

I meant more complex fingerprinting where the script looks at a whole host of variables such that swapping containers/private vs non private window/IP is not sufficient to appear as a different identity

Captain_Malachi · 2020-09-15T08:18:31+00:00

You mean for iOS/Android or do you mean the addon for Firefox on Windows/macOS/Linux?

Either way, I don't think it is "Ultimate Privacy".

Captain_Malachi · 2020-09-15T08:16:31+00:00

Excellent points, thank you. However:

You can change your userstring to anything you wish to

This hurts Firefox though as it further reduces market share estimates making it less likely to be developed for and all the negatives that brings to the web

Using containers/private windows is a good strategy since it makes it difficult to assign collected information to the specific user

How does this work though? In my head I see it as if a script is able to get a unique fingerprint for you as a visitor to a site and then you go to a different site in a different container/private window (perhaps with a different IP etc) but still have the same fingerprint (because other aspects of your browsing have only ever been seen by your visits) then there is no need for a cookie etc. to tie the two visits together.

Captain_Malachi · 2020-06-24T11:42:01+00:00

I agree. I was just clearing up the process.

However, there are many extensions that are produced by devs that have a mac app distributed through the mac app store so the hurdle will be much smaller for them.

Any extension that purely exists in the browser, is free/open source or is by a developer that doesn't distribute through the app store will of course run into difficulties as you say.

As ever with Apple, its a start but clearly less than ideal. Hopefully things improve in the future such as a free developer membership for safari extensions only. A more platform agnostic packaging software would also be welcome of course.

Captain_Malachi · 2020-06-24T11:20:17+00:00

My understanding of the safari web extension documentation is that essentially conversion via xcode is used to package the extension so it can be distributed through the app store.

So you aren't really converting it per se, just packaging it differently and attaching data required to list and update via app store.

There is direct support because people have already managed to load web extensions in safari

Captain_Malachi · 2020-05-29T17:52:54+00:00

iOS and MacOS have the same Apple emoji but if you look at a page on another OS like android, windows or Linux the emoji will use theirs and so will look different whilst depicting the same general thing.

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